NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site:
Human Communication in a Connected World
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Important information
USC/ISI shuttle
Calendar
of events (agenda option gives you summary at a glance)
Shared Google drive folder
REU meeting link - cohort
and
meeting schedule
REU meeting link - interviews
REU areas - meetings and resources
RCR training
Surveys for the first day:
one
and
two
Research questions:
What problem am I trying to solve? Why is this problem important? Why is solving it difficult?
What has been done before (to solve that same problem, to solve related problems that I can leverage)? How do I compare to other efforts to solve that same problem - is my solution better and how?
What is my solution (high level intuition)? What are the details that I have to decide (thresholds, design flow, etc)? How can I reason about these decisions?
What data can I use to test my solution? Do I have enough data? Is there noise? Do I understand ground truth? Can I generate synthetic data?
What is my desired outcome at the end of the program? What is the smallest unit of work that I can complete to feel I've made progress on solving this problem?
Poster template is
here
.
Publication opportunities
REU Symposium at IEEE Big Data
- submissions Aug 25, topics: data science, systems, security
REU Networking and Systems Workshop
- submissions Aug 5, topics: networks, systems, security
ACSAC
- submissions Nov 7, work in progress/posters, topics: security
Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation & Personalization (SMAP)
- submissions July 30, topics: social data mining